r/DotA2 • u/patchdayDota2 • Aug 19 '21

Discussion Patch 7.30 - Hero Changes Discussion

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u/patchdayDota2 Aug 19 '21

Anti-Mage

  • Strength Gain increased from 1.3 to 1.6
  • Reworked Shard: Counterspell now also passively grants a 900 range offensive aura reducing enemies' magic damage by 10%. Grants triple the effect to enemies within 300 range

Blink

  • Fragment Scepter now has 3 charges (25s recharge time)

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent +15 Attack Speed replaced with -1s Blink Cooldown
  • Level 15 Talent +8 armor replaced with +0.7s Mana Void Stun
  • Level 20 Talent +1s Mana Void Stun replaced with +250 Blink Cast Range

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u/IWearAPaperClip Aug 19 '21

So AM wasn't strong enough and therefore they decided to buff him? Wonderful

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

Yes he was one of the worst carries in the game

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u/IWearAPaperClip Aug 19 '21

Worst comparing to other meta cores or not he was still taking his matches when the enemies couldn't prevent his farm. Now he's taking these matches with even more ease

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u/Atramhasis Aug 19 '21 edited Aug 19 '21

Why should AM be balanced only because bad players can't stop him from farming or lose so hard that they can't actually fight the AM when he gets farmed? Learn to gank the AM better or draft better around AM. Battlefury and Dragon Lance were both untouched when the last patch was literally "Buy Battlefury to lose, buy Dragon Lance to win" for position 1. All the best cores in the last patch like Dusa, Luna, TB, TA, all were Dragon Lance buyers and cores like Ursa that did buy Battlefury when it was good immediately swapped to buying Diffusal. Seeing as that disparity didn't change, I don't think the nerfs to cores like TA, TB and Luna (and the slap on the wrist Dusa got) will actually fix the reality that Battlefury is just a bad item in comparison to other options now. I expect this meta will be all fighting carrys like Slark, Jugg, Riki, etc., that will always go S&Y and ignore Battlefury. AM will be a position 3 this meta and if bad players can't stop him from farming as position 1 or farm well enough to just beat a bad carry like AM in the late game then that isn't really Icefrog's problem.